With a newly assertive Russia,rising China and the US all developing space technologies with military applications. Is a new arms race looming?

While several treaties exist regarding space based activities - military or other; are they enough to prevent hostile events or actions by the aforementioned...

Arms Race in Space]]>9Cheap visual processors & neural networksSat, 07 Sep 2019 00:58:19 +0000https://www.defencetalk.com/military/forums/t/cheap-visual-processors-neural-networks.14894/
https://www.defencetalk.com/military/forums/t/cheap-visual-processors-neural-networks.14894/invalid@example.com (cdxbow)cdxbowNeural Compute stick 2, a USB sized trainable neural network and visual processing unit - it enables all sorts of real time recognition of visual data such as facial recognition, number plate recognition etc It runs OpenCV and OpenVino and comes with a lot of samples, including pretrained models. It's not for the feint hearted and you need some experience with C++ to use it fully. You can...

Cheap visual processors & neural networks]]>X-37 - The first military space plane?Wed, 28 Aug 2019 19:29:58 +0000https://www.defencetalk.com/military/forums/t/x-37-the-first-military-space-plane.10184/
https://www.defencetalk.com/military/forums/t/x-37-the-first-military-space-plane.10184/invalid@example.com (furymonkey)furymonkey
What do guys think this plane will have? Will they eventually equip...

X-37 - The first military space plane?]]>28Space tramTue, 13 Aug 2019 09:19:58 +0000https://www.defencetalk.com/military/forums/t/space-tram.14875/
https://www.defencetalk.com/military/forums/t/space-tram.14875/invalid@example.com (Urban Furlan)Urban FurlanDeep Underground . I would like to invite you all to express you opinion, if proposed solutions can support the concept of space tram. Any suggestions are highly welcomed.]]>5NZ Space ActivityWed, 07 Aug 2019 01:28:57 +0000https://www.defencetalk.com/military/forums/t/nz-space-activity.14721/
https://www.defencetalk.com/military/forums/t/nz-space-activity.14721/invalid@example.com (ngatimozart)ngatimozartDARPA satellite next month from it's Mahia Peninsula launch site. This is after Rock Lab undertook a successful mini-sat launch for NASA recently, also from the Mahia launch site.]]>7Compact Fusion ReactorMon, 22 Jul 2019 15:44:03 +0000https://www.defencetalk.com/military/forums/t/compact-fusion-reactor.13327/
https://www.defencetalk.com/military/forums/t/compact-fusion-reactor.13327/invalid@example.com (John Fedup)John Fedup51Space Shuttle Replacement?Thu, 18 Jul 2019 11:55:31 +0000https://www.defencetalk.com/military/forums/t/space-shuttle-replacement.9153/
https://www.defencetalk.com/military/forums/t/space-shuttle-replacement.9153/invalid@example.com (Ananda)Ananda
Space Shuttle will gone in the next two - four years..BURAN projects will not and realistically can not be revived from the graves..
The Puttin new space...

It is also good to see Australia once again seriously getting back into the space industry. A little known fact is that Australia was actually the...

Australian Space Agency]]>17ODIN Space Defense System.Sun, 21 Apr 2019 16:18:24 +0000https://www.defencetalk.com/military/forums/t/odin-space-defense-system.14801/
https://www.defencetalk.com/military/forums/t/odin-space-defense-system.14801/invalid@example.com (Ascott Q. Prime)Ascott Q. Prime
There is no doubt America's dominance in space will be critical to our survival. America more than likely has space defense systems in place that could protect us from anyone, including Russia's new smart muntions payloads. Anyone who remember Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare remembers the ODIN Space Defense System.

This is quite interesting because researchers have a working cipher machine that provides an unbreakable one time code.]]>7Italian Spy satellitesSat, 08 Sep 2018 10:58:25 +0000https://www.defencetalk.com/military/forums/t/italian-spy-satellites.14633/
https://www.defencetalk.com/military/forums/t/italian-spy-satellites.14633/invalid@example.com (JFoulke)JFoulke
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The OPTSAT 3000 is an Optical reconnaissance Satellite launched in 2017 and has an expected lifetime of 7 years and was built by Telespazio, a joint venture between Leonardo (67%) and Thales (33%).
The COSMO-SkyMed (Constellation of Small Satellites for Mediterranean basin observation) it's composed COSMO 1 and 2 launched in 2007, COSMO 3 launched...

Indian Court Reopens ISRO Espionage Case; Compensates Acquitted Scientist]]>mars missionSat, 12 May 2018 15:05:39 +0000https://www.defencetalk.com/military/forums/t/mars-mission.11820/
https://www.defencetalk.com/military/forums/t/mars-mission.11820/invalid@example.com (crazydevil)crazydevil14Airborne systems for the protection of aircrafts from guided missilesFri, 06 Apr 2018 10:04:44 +0000https://www.defencetalk.com/military/forums/t/airborne-systems-for-the-protection-of-aircrafts-from-guided-missiles.14293/
https://www.defencetalk.com/military/forums/t/airborne-systems-for-the-protection-of-aircrafts-from-guided-missiles.14293/invalid@example.com (Alexandr_1986)Alexandr_1986
Lots of discussions have been held regarding the characteristics of different combat aircrafts equiped with the state-of-art avionics, with the possibility to carry the variety of missiles and etc. Of course their prices have been also discussed.
But defense also keeps the relevans. Otherwise, any aircraft with the best combat characteristics will be shoot down with AAM or SAM.
Besides, it is rather pity to see when the best combat aircrafts were hitted by cheap RPG...